Stopping Smoking Can Lead To Weight Gain One of the really interesting things about the nicotine in cigarettes is that it works in two ways. All About Nicotine When you take a long drag, it acts as a tranquilizer, but when you inhale in short puffs,

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力文摘 English Digest

Why Be A Sports Fan? Ever notice how sports fans insist on talking as if theyre one of the players when all you do is watch the games on TV? It could be that cheering a particular team gives them an identity and sense of belonging. They are defining

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A Rose By Any Other Name Just saying the word rose conjures up images of romance, secret admirers, Valentines gifts, and bridal bouquets. Romantics imagine soft, red petals and long, graceful stems, but practical gardeners know all about painful, poi

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Why Are Some People Double-Jointed? Can you bend your thumb backwards until it touches your wrist? If you join your hands behind your back, can you lift them over your head without letting go? If you can, you might be what some people call double-joi

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Animals Help Others Survive In The Wild Even without the guidance of organized religion, some animals instinctively know that its a good thing to help others. A Helping Hand 图片1 For example, when a bird spots a predator, instead of just flying aw

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Enjoying Your Food Increases The Nourishment Your Body Receives Did last nights dinner make you drool with anticipation? Did lunch have you licking your chops? According to research by teams from Thailand and Sweden, enjoying your food increases the

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In the 17th century, the French scientist Pierre Gassendi knew that light traveled faster than sound. When a gun fired far away, he could see the flash of gunshot long before he heard the report. Gassendi tried to measure the speed of sound by clocki

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AntIntrigue 蚂蚁的阴谋 Don: Hey,antslives are full of intrigue. Take slave-making ants. They invade other ants nests, kill some of the adults, and then steal the larvae and take them back to their own nests. The larvae learn who they belong to b

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Topics: The FBI; Readers Digest; consent versus assent, concord versus accord, the long and the short of it Words: federal domestic intelligence serial killer child predator Internet hacker conspiracy secretive digest to condense excerpt humor consen

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Ant Attack! Imagine this. Youre coming home to your gated community after a long day of work. As you stop to show the guard your ID, a mugger jumps out from behind a bush and grab s you by the mouth. Okay, that last part sounded a little weird, but t

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力文摘 English Digest

Successful entrepreneurs have surpassed pop stars as college students' idols, a recent Fudan University survey has found. In the survey, which sampled 150 students from different grades and departments, 96 chose successful entrepreneurs as their idol

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The flood of e-mail spam, or junk e-mails, that bombards Internet users daily has become a nagging problem, according to a survey released by the Taiwan Internet Association. The survey found that Internet users receive an average of 29 junk e-mails

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The Ministry of Education and the John Tung Foundation recently sponsored a two-week camp for underweight and overweight children from grades three through six. Nutritionists taught the students about sugar and grease content in a variety of foods, a

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Dear Annie: My daughter is in high school and splits her time between my house and my ex-wife's. She often attends parties, and I've hosted many myself. Recently my house has become unpopular because I don't serve alcohol. My daughter has been to par

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America's most famous dysfunctional cartoon family The Simpsons were unveiled as the latest faces on a set of commemorative stamps released by the U.S. Postal Service. A total of one billion The Simpsons stamps will be issued across the United States

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Well, yael, the average weight difference between women and men is one reason why women tend to get intoxicated faster, but theres more. Women also tend to have more fat and less muscle than men, even tall women. This is significant because muscle ti

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Y: So Don, yesterday I was walking down the produce aisle when I saw it--long, ripe,yellow. The perfect banana. It really looked delicious and I had to have it. I took it home and hung it on a banana hanger. The very next morning, it developed nasty

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In a recent study, scientists observed that when the participants felt rejected, the flow of blood increased to the area of their brain known as the anterior cingulated cortex. This same area has been associated with the emotional response to unpleas

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The Denatured Egg White 煮鸡蛋还有那么多学问哪?在煮鸡蛋过程,鸡蛋会发生哪些变化呢? 蛋白质变性(protein denaturation)是指蛋白质在某些物理和化学因素作用下其特定的空间构象被改变,从而导致

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A Pain in the Ear 耳痛是一种常见病,耳痛为常见症状,常因耳部疾病引起(原发性或耳源性耳痛),也可因耳部邻近器官或其他器官疾病所致(继发性或反射性耳痛)。耳痛的严重程度与病变的

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